Jill Tokuda

Executive Director | Nisei Veterans Memorial Center

Focus Areas: nonprofit management, business management, policy

Experience: A Castle High School graduate, Jill is the current Executive Director for the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center. She served in the State Senate for 12 years (2006-2018), representing parts of windward Oʻahu, including Kaneʻohe and Kailua. She chaired the powerful Ways and Means Committee, balancing the state’s $14 billion budget and negotiating and determining approval for all fiscal measures pending before the Legislature. She also chaired the Senate Labor, Education, Higher Education, and Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs committees and served as majority whip.Tokuda’s private sector experience includes running her own consulting business assisting nonprofits and organizations, previously serving as development director for the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaiʻi and having advised former Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono as her executive aide.